Engineering or specialty elastomers are the stalwart materials of the rubber industry. They are high volume and medium priced elastomers, often employed in demanding applications, such as the automotive, industrial, medical and electrical industries. The Engineering Elastomers 2003 conference had an exciting series of papers from authors in both Europe and the USA, addressing the opportunities for growth in engineering elastomers, as well as the challenges to producers and users operating in a rapidly changing competitive environment.

Session 2 Advances in Compounding and ProductionPaper 3 - Functionalisation of Polymers & Compatibilisation of Polymer Blends by a Novel Reactive Processing ApproachPaper 4 - Precrosslinked Engineering Elastomers - What Are the Benefits? PAPER UNAVAILABLE AT TIME OF PRINTPaper 5 - High-Hardness Compounds in Papermill Roll Covers and the Role of Fillers Networking in their Dynamic Performance PAPER UNAVAILABLE AT TIME OF PRINT Paper 6 - Use of the NFM Iddon Cold Feed Extruder and Novel Low Temperature Curing EPDM to Reduce Processing and Curing Energy Consumption

Session 6: Developments In Production And Processing Technologies And EquipmentPaper 15 - MIPs (Multi-Ingredient-Preweighs) unique improvements of process variation and dispersion by preblending chemicalsPaper 16 - Latest Developments in Production Equipment, Moulds and Automation for Processing of Engineering ElastomersPaper 17 - New Developments for the Optimisation of High Injection Moulded Elastomers Using 3D SimulationPaper 18 - Latest Developments in Thermal Balance Control in the Moulds